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  • Sergeant heads eyeglasses recycling drive

    Staff Sgt. Jarrett Sainz is leading an eyeglasses recycling drive, which is going on now through next week. All the eyeglasses collected will go to a local Lions Club, who provides no-cost prescription glasses to people in Third World countries. Master Sgt. A. Todd Sauls, 377th Wing Staff Agencies

  • AFRL celebrates additional space research building

    A new Air Force Research Laboratory building dedicated to space sensor research and development and space radiation effects was featured at a Kirtland ribbon cutting event Feb. 20 . As part of a lab revitalization project at the laboratory, the Infrared Radiation Effects Laboratory began

  • Safety Center civilian selected for prestigious leadership program

    Mark Nunn, Air Force Risk Management Program manager and chief of the Air Force Safety Automated System Requirements Group at the Air Force Safety Center, was recently selected for the prestigious Air Force Civilian Strategic Leader Program and to attend Air War College in residence in July.Nunn is

  • NASA astronaut has AFRL Kirtland connection

    Col. Michael Hopkins recently skyrocketed into fame when he performed a series of spacewalks as a crew member on the International Space Station.In 1993, Hopkins was a second lieutenant reporting to his first duty station at the Phillips Laboratory, a predecessor to today's Air Force Research

  • AFRL scientist recognized for his work

    Dr. Matthew Squires, a scientist in the cold atom lab at the Air Force Research Laboratory, and his coworkers are daring to go where no one else in the Department of Defense has gone before.Recently, Squires, Spence Olson and Bryan Kasch have created a Bose-Einstein condensate. "I believe that we're

  • The Great American Spit Out: Pitch the dip

    Those wishing to kick the tobacco habit can look to the Great American Spit Out, an annual campaign held each February as a means to raise awareness of the dangers associated with smokeless tobacco. Commitment to quitting is the first step in overcoming the use of tobacco products, so step up to the

  • Kirtland hosts exercise in virtual battlespace

    Virtual Flag 14-2 begins Feb. 21, and participants will take part in the seven-day large force composite exercise in a virtual battlespace that merges tactical- and operational-level training.Maj. Joseph Michaelson, exercise director, said the exercise helps prepare warfighters for combat situations

  • AFRL research leads to bigger telescopes

    Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, wrote British author Arthur C. Clarke.That quote could easily describe adaptive optics, technology that was pushed forward at Kirtland's Air Force Research Laboratory. And it's a technology that universities, private astronomers

  • National campaign promotes oral hygiene among children

    February is National Children's Dental Health Month, and members of the 377th Dental Squadron will be visiting child development classrooms across the base to spread the dental message to young kids.Dental Health Month is an annual event sponsored by the American Dental Association to promote